 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 564 pages
...him, and on April thirtieth, sent him a letter containing the following as its most significant word : You are vigilant and self-reliant, and pleased with...to obtrude any restraints or constraints upon you. ... If there be anything wanting in my power to give, do not fail to let me know. And now, with a brave... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1926 - 544 pages
...opens, I wish to express in this way my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The particulars of your plans...and, pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. While I am very anxious that any great disaster or capture of our... | |
 | Sir Frederick Maurice - Military art and science - 1926 - 216 pages
..."You are vigilant and self-reliant," wrote the President to him soon after Grant had taken the field; "and, pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any restraints or constraints upon you. ... If there be anything wanting in my power to give do not fail to let me know. And now with a brave... | |
 | Sir Frederick Maurice - Civil supremacy over the military - 1926 - 188 pages
...are vigilant and self-reliant," wrote the President to him soon after Grant had taken the field, " and pleased with this I wish not to obtrude any restraints or constraints upon you . . . If there be anything wanting in my power to give do not fail to let me know. And now with a brave... | |
 | Frederick Trevor Hill - Presidents - 1928 - 320 pages
...command on March 10, 1864, never sought to shift his responsibility. Nor had he any reason for doing so. "The particulars of your plans I neither know nor seek to know," Lincoln wrote him at the very outset of his duties. "I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - Presidents - 1917 - 518 pages
...satisfaction with what you have done up to this time so far as I understand it. The particulars of your plan I neither know nor seek to know. You are vigilant...and, pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. While I am very anxious that any great disaster or capture of our... | |
 | 1921 - 776 pages
...I wish to express, in this way, my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The particulars of your plans I neither know nor seek to know." McPherson, History of the Rebellion, 425. active charge of military and naval operations.28 Modern... | |
 | 1886 - 984 pages
...opens, I wish to express in this way my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The particulars of your plans I neither know or seek to know. You are vigilant and selfreliant ; and, pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any... | |
 | Richard N. Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1958 - 326 pages
...general's plans. In a letter to Grant several weeks afterward (April 30, 1864) the President did say: "The particulars of your plans I neither know nor seek to know." The particulars. Lincoln doubtless meant that he did not want Grant to throw upon him the responsibility... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...I wish to express, in this way, my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The particulars of your plans I neither know, or seek to know. You are vigilant and selfreliant; and, pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any... | |
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Not expecting to see you again before the spring campaign opens, I wish to express in this way my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The particulars of your plans I neither know nor seek to know. 
